curriculum vitae

ASHLEY HAYWOOD

Ashley Haywood is a writer, researcher and poet, with work published and performed in Australia and overseas. She holds a PhD in Creative Research on semiotics and creativity. She also holds First Class Honours degrees in Creative Writing and Biological Sciences. Ashley’s interests often move in the art-science nexus.

EDUCATION

2009 – 2015 | Doctor of Philosophy

School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia (External*)

Dissertation Title: Harlequin Blue and The Picasso Experiment Questioning: Signs, minds and creativity; or, How to write like painting?

Honours Theses Titles: ‘The Role of GP900 in the adhesion and invasion process of the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum’; and, ‘Chromosomal breakpoint analysis in an anophthalmia patient with a de novo translocation’.

Major Fields: Molecular Biology, Human Genetics

Output:

Co-authored research paper published in peer-reviewed journal American Journal of Medical Genetics (2006)

EMPLOYMENT

CURRENT | UQ Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow (2018)

Project is a book of poems, with the working-title, Portraits, drawing on material in the Dorothy Hill Collection (University of Queensland, Fryer Library) for inspiration. Poet-narrator is folded into the loops and flows of ecological and geological systems across time. This is an Anthropocene-aware project.

2009-Current | Artist and Researcher

Writer, researcher and poet with work published and performed in Australia and overseas.

2015-Current | Interpretation Editing

Ashley provides innovative solutions alongside research, writing and editing services to local and state government interpretation projects from conception through to publication or installation // She works in collaboration with communities, storytellers and experts, inclusive of Indigenous communities, Land Councils and Traditional Owners, anthropologists and environmental scientists, artists and designers.